Tag: October
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The Guild’s Share
by Nyki Blatchley in Issue 141, October 2023 Loshi sauntered through the streets of Shimeth, putting a deliberate swagger into her walk. She’d been in the city for ten days now, and life was good, especially when you were seventeen and just where you’d always dreamt of being. The colourful bazaars were stuffed with fascinating…
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Under a Green Moon
by M. R. Timson in Issue 141, October 2023 The waters of the strait were as clear as glass. There was hardly a grain of sediment blocking Epona’s view of the rocky surface, perhaps hundreds of feet below. It was a whole other world down there, with its peaks and valleys, its forests and tundra—its…
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Brexit 409 AD
by George S. Walker in Issue 141, October 2023 It was a rainy summer evening as Cerridwen led Lucius and the centurion into the abandoned mine. The Briton’s red hair, plaited in braids, slapped against the dirty wet wool of her tunic, stretched over her pregnant belly. Lucius was proud the centurion had chosen him,…
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The Fulminous
by E. G. Condé All was still in the vale of the Legendwalkers. Beneath a rumbling sky, he could see nothing stalking about the ebon crags and the tiered slopes of the great rotunda, which gave way to a chasm of unfathomable depth. Legends walked with him, whispering from the heritage metals grafted onto his…